User:Abce2/Ref Cheatsheet

A place for, basically, my cheatsheet for refs. Full citations for books typically include:

name of the author(s) year of publication in brackets title of the book in italics city of publication optional name of the publisher page number(s) where appropriate ISBN optional

Full citations for individually authored chapters in books additionally include: the book's overall editor the title of the chapter the page numbers for the chapter

Full citations for journal articles typically include:

name of the author(s) year and sometimes month of publication title of the article within quotation marks name of the journal in italics volume number, issue number (if the journal uses them), and page numbers (article numbers in some electronic journals)

Citations for newspaper articles typically include:

name of the newspaper in italics (required) date of publication (required) byline (author's name), if any title of the article within quotation marks city of publication, if not included in name of newspaper the date you retrieved it if it is online, invisible to the reader: page number(s) are optional

Citations for World Wide Web articles typically include:

name of the author(s) title of the article within quotation marks name of the website (linked to a Wikipedia article about the site if it exists, or to Website's "about page") date of publication page number(s) (if applicable) the date you retrieved it (invisible to the reader if the article has a date of publication: )